The Burelson school district is partnering with Hill College and UNT Health Fort Worth to create a pathway program for students interested in the health care and biomedical science fields.
The program, which will start this fall, is called the Accelerated Biomedical Careers Initiative, and will allow students at Burleson high schools to start earning college credits early so they can earn their degree in a shorter amount of time.
Students in any grade, including incoming ninth graders, will be able to earn college credit through the program, but it will start with the district’s eighth graders and grow as they progress through high school, wrote Lindsey Byrd, Burleson’s chief of secondary education, in a statement to the Star-Telegram…